Armored Scrapgorger

A mana dork that eats graveyards and grows fangs. The design ties three separate payoffs to one action: tapping for mana feeds a graveyard-exile trigger, that trigger builds oil counters, and the counters eventually flip a defensive 0/3 into an attacker. The elegant part is that the tap that produces mana is the same tap that advances the whole engine, so there is no cost to activating it beyond what you were already doing to ramp. It rewards patience without demanding a dedicated build: any deck that wants a two-mana any-color rock gets incidental graveyard hate and a slow clock stapled on. The exile clause quietly does two jobs, hosing recursion and reanimator strategies while it fuels itself, which makes it a fixing piece and a soft answer at once. The three-counter threshold is the restraint that keeps the aggression honest; it takes three separate taps to reach the +3/+0, and until then you are holding a body that blocks and produces mana rather than pressuring life totals. What lands is the compression: fixing, incremental disruption, and a delayed threat folded into a single two-drop, with the oil-counter mechanic acting as the ledger that tracks how far along that transformation has come.